Welcome back, my friends, to the show that never ends!
We have come at last to the 116th running of the CC Dispatch!
In this issue, I welcome you to the long-awaited Jig's Fantasy Draft Event. The complete description of this event is reproduced below in our Platoon Report. I hope you are excited about participating in this ground-breaking event. Former Platoon Report editor, and current Lord of the Clans [player]Leehar[/player] has returned for a special guest appearance in this issue.
We also have our regular War Games feature section. Special thanks to [player]DaveH[/player] and his tournament team for their reliable and prompt reportage!!! And congrats to the TDs on the launch of the TPA4 scoreboard!
Last but oh-so-far-from-least, we have our Interrogation of Benga, the clan mastermind who has made the whole CC world tremble at the mention of Croatia! In our next issue, we will be interrogating hayesez, one of the quiet ones that you have to watch, someone who has made it up the scoreboard to the Number 2 position without any big public hullabaloo.
To those of us who love the forums, the most important regular rite of Conquer Club is the periodic re-naming of the Off-Topics Forum. The longest-running name of all ("Whose Forum Is It, Anyway?") ended its unprecedented 11-month run and was finally replaced with "Babble-On Five" on April 28th.
The author of the new name is [player]MudPuppy[/player], who won the right to name the forum as a result of his incredible performance in the Great Easter Bunny Debate.
[spoiler=list of the names of off topics][player]DoomYoshi[/player] has declared himself the archivist of the forum and has compiled the following list: Subject: List of Forum Names
[/spoiler]DoomYoshi wrote:
- Off-Topic Topics (somewhere around inception)*
- Social Lounge (Jul 26-29, 2006- Aug 30, 2006) 36-39 days
- The Romper Room (Aug 30, 2006 - Sep 2006) ~30 days
- The Water Cooler (October 2006) ~31 days
- The Village Voice (Nov 2006) ~30 days
- The Mess Hall (Dec 2006) ~60 days
- Social Lounge II (Feb 1, 2007 - May 24, 2007) 113 days*
- Funny Farm (May 24, 2007 - Jul 10, 2007) 48 days
- The Clubhouse (Jul 10, 2007 - Nov 28, 2007) 142 days*
- Intelleegent Konversation (Nov 28, 2007 - Apr 1, 2008) 127 days
- This Forum No Longer Exists (Apr 1, 2008) 1 day
- Chatter Box (Apr 2, 2008 - Sep 1(or 2),2008) 153 days*
- The (not yet) Banned (Sep 1, 2008 - Nov 26, 2008) 87 days
- The Tower of Babble (Nov 26, 2008 - Late February 2009) 95 days
- Much Ado About Nothing (Late February 2009 - June 29, 2009) 122 days
- Turtle Soup (June 29 - Oct 30, 2009) 124 days
- Monkey Business (Oct 30, 2009 - Apr 30, 2010) 183 days
- Bumpage (Apr 30 - 2010 - Aug 30, 2010) 123 days
- Serious Interwebz Business (Aug 30, 2010 - Jan 17, 2011) 141 days
- The Forum That Shall Not Be Named (Jan 17, 2011 - Jun 2, 2011) 137 days
- Schrödinger's Catbox (Jun 2, 2011 - Oct 19, 2011) 140 days
- Davy Jones Locker (Oct 19, 2011 - Feb 1, 2012) 106 days
- Atmospheric Noise (Feb 1, 2012 - May 1, 2012) 91 days
- Where the Wild Things Are (May 1, 2012 - Oct 13, 2012) 166 days
- Ad Hominem (Oct 13, 2012 - Jan 21, 2013) 101 days
- One Does Not Simply Walk Into The Forums (Jan 21, 2013 - June 7th, 2013) 138 days
- Whose Forum Is It, Anyway? (Jun 7, 2013 - Oct 24th, 2013) 140 days
- 400 Stale Jokes from wicked`s Time Oct 25th and 26th, 2013 2 days
- Whose Forum Is It, Anyway? (Jun 7, 2013 - Oct 24th, 2013; Oct 26th, 2013 - April 27th, 2014)325 days(185 days)
- Babble-On Five (April 28th, 2014) 1 day and counting
Hundred Day Club by Length:* denotes a forum name that at one point was the record holder for longest name (discounting the earlier ones since accurate dates are hard to come by).
- Whose Forum Is It, Anyway? (Jun 7, 2013 - Oct 24, 2013) 325 days
- Monkey Business (Oct 30, 2009 - Apr 30, 2010) 183 days
- Where the Wild Things Are (May 1, 2012 - Oct 13, 2012) 166 days
- Chatter Box (Apr 2, 2008 - Sep 1(or 2),2008) 153 days*
- The Clubhouse (Jul 10, 2007 - Nov 28, 2007) 142 days*
- Serious Interwebz Business (Aug 30, 2010 - Jan 17, 2011) 141 days
- Schrödinger's Catbox (Jun 2, 2011 - Oct 19, 2011) 140 days
- One Does Not Simply Walk Into The Forums (Jan 21, 2013 - June 7th, 2013) 138 days
- The Forum That Shall Not Be Named (Jan 17, 2011 - Jun 2, 2011) 137 days
- Turtle Soup (June 29 - Oct 30, 2009) 124 days
- Bumpage (Apr 30 - 2010 - Aug 30, 2010) 123 days
- Much Ado About Nothing (Late February 2009 - June 29, 2009) 122 days
- Social Lounge II (Feb 1, 2007 - May 24, 2007) 113 days*
underline denotes the current record holder
There are a lot of behind-the-scenes improvements to Conquer Club that don't lend themselves to big splashy announcements like we were blessed with in January and February. The emphasis in the last month has been on technical improvements to the game engine and the forum, resolving the long-standing lag problems, hunting down some nasty bugs, and minor tweaks of existing features. Most people have been finding the lag problems much reduced in the last couple of weeks, and some bugs have been hunted down and killed. None of this is particularly exciting to write about, but it is important.
The leading event right now is the May Challenge. This challenge focuses on the 13 Colonies map.
DoomYoshi wrote:The Quebec Act of May 20, 1774 was an attempt by England to halt the expansion of the 13 colonies westward by awarding those territories to Quebec. You will need strategy and diplomacy to get through the main repercussions of this Act - the American Revolutionary War.
will work on it..jpg)
cheers to best clan chief i have ever known ,thanks for all your hard work 
